Fighting between al Qaeda`s Syria branch and a splinter group in eastern Syria has forced more than 60,000 people to flee their homes, emptied villages and killed scores of fighters, a monitoring group said.

Ivory Coast`s new army turned its guns on a former ally who helped install the democratically elected president but failed on Thursday to defeat his forces who are dug into a neighborhood of Abidjan, military sources said.

The change of guard in the
Delhi unit of BJP with the appointment of Vijendra Gupta on Saturday
saw infighting come back to the fore with senior party leaders
staying away from a function
to felicitate him.

In an acknowledgement of the
poor state of affairs in BJP, party mouthpiece "Kamal Sandesh"
has said Lok Sabha and other poll defeats were caused due to
infighting, lack of discipline and unity in the party.